Systems Developer

Role: Systems Developer with AWS Python

Location: Sunnyvale CA Onsite

Key Skills: AWS cloud on services HPC systems SQL NoSQL Linux Python

Job description:

Design Technology team provides HighPerformance Computing (HPC) services based on AWS cloud and onprem hardware for several Amazon internal teams for their hardware simulations and product design applications. As a HPC systems developer the individuals role is pivotal to the daily operations of the HPC environments thus the success of all the development processes of our Amazon products. This role will be supporting applications/tools/services for internal Amazon engineers.

Job responsibilities:

Designing and implementing the next generation of Amazon services underlying architecture inventing new techniques solving complex scaling challenges and launching new service features. Providing system support for the manageability operability and performance of the software platforms and creating simple processes that help operate and build our system infrastructure. Adapting and improving operations management systems and processes to accommodate rapid and increasing growth in systems and traffic. Optimizing the performance of our systems by analyzing and deploying new hardware configurations. Applying networking and systems skills to build optimize and extend rapidly growing Amazon software services. Developing custom components to augment/enhance the current systems or design and build new applications/components ground up to better align with the teams and internal customers goals and vision.

Some of the key activities include:

1. Maintaining HPC environments on AWS
2. Maintaining Linux/Windows Remote desktop sessions
3. User onboard file permission user group
4. Maintaining HPC job scheduler (PBS)
5. Maintain and manage multiple software tools (Install configure update/upgrade patch and fix security vulnerabilities) such as but not limited Atlassian tools
6. Manage software licensing service customer and vendor communication for licensing needs.
7. Issue (defect risk vulnerability user requests) triaging and timely resolution of tickets (which include individual user requests to security and compliance issues raise for entities such as operating systems AWS infrastructure and software updates)

Basic qualification:

1. 2 years of experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python PowerShell C
2. 3 years of experience in automation (building testing releasing or monitoring) and building tools for the same.
3. 5 years of Linux administration experience alongwith networking storage systems and handson systems engineering experience
4. 4 years of experience with AWS cloud on services such as but not limited to EC2 EFS EBS S3 Route53 VPC VPC Peering and CloudFormation
5. 1 years of experience in HPC systems and job schedulers (such as Altair PBS Slurm IBM LSF)
6. 1 years managing Network License Servers (FlexLM compliant network licenses)
7. 2 years of experience managing backend databases (both SQL and NoSQL) on AWS

Preferred qualification:

1. Understanding of one of more of distributed CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) and FEA (Finite Element Analysis) simulation tools such as but not limited Ansys (Ansys LSDyna Fluent HFSS) MATLAB Siemens (StarCCM Flotherm) Cadence Comsol Abaqus Keysight Remcom CST Synopsys (Lighttools HSpice) on HPC
2. Understanding of one or more of HPC job schedulers such as PBS Slurm LSF
3. Experience with Java/Python/C/C based system/application deployment maintenance and management.
4. Experience with basic database querying (both SQL and NoSQL)
5. Developing systems/applications on AWS cloud.